Come on, this is absurd. I think its called blackmail.

Dave has done a lot to promote RSS and to protect it
from well-intentioned yet dangerous attempts to turn
it from "Really Simple Syndication" to what I have to
now label "Really Complex Syndication". Dave picked
up the ball that Netscape dropped, and he ran with
it for a long time. Now that he is close to the
finish line you guys want to take the ball from him,
rename the game, and say that he cannot even take
any credit for the game he was playing in?

There is no reason for RSS to die. It works well and
serves a useful purpose.

Jeff;

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Swartz [mailto:aswartz@...]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:48 AM
To: rss-dev@egroups.com
Subject: [RSS-DEV] Re: Survey for rss-dev people


Dave, could you add a third option -- "I'd change the name if UserLand
agrees not to work on any future formats named RSS"? Basically, I'd prefer
it if we left RSS (as a name) to die with Netscape and both the XML+NS
formats and the RSS 0.92/0.93 stuff that you've been discussing took new
names. Since there's only one vote, it's not too late.

How do you feel about this?

--
Aaron Swartz |"This information is top security.
<http://swartzfam.com/aaron/>| When you have read it, destroy yourself."
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